Chapter Summaries

Jiang Man reported the Bai Family Ancestor for hiding his Primordial Spirit cultivation in the Outer Sect, but the report led to a fight that landed Jiang Man, Ji Meng, and the Bai Family Ancestor in the Enforcement Hall. After they paid fines and left, Jiang Man discussed the Supreme Law and his plans with Old Yellow Ox, while the Bai Family Ancestor privately prepared for what he believed was his coming death.

• Jiang Man reported the Bai Family Ancestor for concealing his cultivation, then the Bai Family Ancestor attacked Jiang Man and Ji Meng in the shaobing shop.
• The Enforcement Hall investigated the three, fined each of them ten thousand Spirit Sources, and released them.
• Jiang Man took Ji Meng home, where they shared a shaobing and discussed his promised surprise; Ji Meng also told him that Mr. Tantai had made her repay his hundred thousand Spirit Sources.
• Jiang Man showed Old Yellow Ox the stone containing the Supreme Law and discussed finding the Supreme Heart Hall to establish an Immortal Ascension Daoist Site.
• The Bai Family Ancestor divined that his death would come within a year or two and began planning how to send the Ji Family's old woman back.

Jiang Man began his third year in the Inner Sect while Luo Xuan weighed whether to leave the shop and pursue cultivation elsewhere. After hearing Little Fatty call the offer an opportunity as great as the heavens, Luo Xuan made her choice, then asked him whether he thought she was a coward.

• Jiang Man discussed the Bai Family Ancestor and his training with Old Yellow Ox, then received pastries from Ji Meng and prepared to begin classes.
• Teacher Yan addressed the students’ third year and offered to arrange shorter missions, while Jiang Man said he would accept none this year.
• Luo Jian and Luo Huaili discussed Luo Xuan’s future and visited her at the shop to ask for her decision.
• Luo Xuan told Luo Jian that Little Fatty had urged her to take the cultivation opportunity, and Luo Jian and Luo Huaili left after speaking with her.
• Luo Xuan asked Little Fatty whether he would leave if Jiang Man were absent, and he said he would pursue the chance to reach Core Formation.
• After Luo Jian and Luo Huaili departed, Luo Xuan asked Little Fatty whether he had ever thought she was a coward.

Jiang Man broke through to Primordial Spirit Perfection and collected his remaining rewards, then gave Song Qing a secret-realm qualification and gathered others to discuss cultivation methods. Meanwhile, the two injured bounty hunters learned that Jiang Man had claimed their bounty and began plotting to capture him once he left the Wuyun Sect.

• Luo Xuan’s letter revealed that she had refused the chance to enter the Moonlit Sect and chosen to stay, leaving Luo Lu confused and regretful.
• Jiang Man completed his breakthrough to Primordial Spirit Perfection, received a Mountain-Suppressing Office token, a secret-realm qualification, and the Wind-Concealing Technique from the Enforcement Hall.
• Jiang Man learned that Luo Xuan had stayed while Luo Lu had left with the Luo Lineage, and he gave Song Qing a Foundation Establishment Secret Realm qualification to settle his debt.
• Jiang Man gathered Luo Xuan, Cheng Yu, Little Fatty, and others to explain Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment methods and develop a more direct cultivation method.
• The Short Woman and White-Haired Man identified Jiang Man as the person who had fraudulently collected their bounty and planned to capture him after he left the Wuyun Sect.

Jiang Man contacted the Sun-Moon Immortal Journey for information about the Formation Arts Evil God, but its representative demanded the Emperor’s Heart and revealed little. After learning the representative was the Water God, Jiang Man received a proposal to act as a paid intermediary between Tantai Xue and Drunken Floating Life, leaving him to rely on the Mountain-Suppressing Office to make the connection.

• Jiang Man used the Black Spirit Abyss token to contact the Sun-Moon Immortal Journey and asked for information about the Formation Arts Evil God.
• The Sun-Moon Immortal Journey representative demanded the Emperor’s Heart in exchange for information, then ended the conversation without revealing anything useful.
• Old Yellow Ox identified the representative as the Water God, a remnant of the Immortal Court who had once presided over the Heavenly River, Weak Water, and the Four Seas.
• Tantai Xue and Tantai Xiaotian considered using Jiang Man as a middleman to contact Drunken Floating Life and learn why he had gone to the Black Spirit Abyss.
• Jiang Man agreed to Tantai Xue’s intermediary proposal for ten thousand Spirit Source and planned to use the Mountain-Suppressing Office to establish contact with Drunken Floating Life.

Jiang Man advanced his cultivation and arranged a trade between Drunken Floating Life and Tantai Xue, exchanging information about the source of unrest for details about the Formation Arts Evil God. Tantai Xue learned that Jiang Man himself was supposedly the Ji Family woman’s spouse and wondered whether the world was making a fool of her.

• Jiang Man filled his fourth cultivation gourd, agreed to communicate with Red Eagle, and began trading information through Drunken Floating Life.
• Tantai Xue met Jiang Man in the ruins and asked why Drunken Floating Life had appeared in the Black Spirit Abyss; she offered information about the Formation Arts Evil God or an undercover agent as payment.
• Jiang Man delivered an envelope explaining that the unrest involved the Immortal Gate’s list and a report that the Ji Family woman had married Jiang Man of the Wuyun Sect.
• Tantai Xue told Tantai Xiaotian the report, and he realized the person involved might be Jiang Man rather than Drunken Floating Life.

Jiang Man learned more about the Wuyou Evil God and the battle from over three hundred years ago, then completed his cultivation and faced an assessment with his companions. Tantai Xue decided to help him find the Supreme Heart Hall as the chapter ended.

• Tantai Xue discussed the dangerous rumors surrounding Jiang Man with Tantai Xiaotian and decided to stop investigating them.
• Jiang Man read that Wuyou had been a Ji Family elder and a central figure in the battle, then heard the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit recount a terrifying voice demanding that everyone choose a side.
• Jiang Man taught cultivation methods to Chen Shi and the others, asked the Mysterious Evil God to look into the Supreme Heart Hall, and told the Old Yellow Ox what he had learned.
• Jiang Man filled the Fourth Gourd and reached perfection in his cultivation, physical body, and Primordial Spirit before Teacher Ji assessed the courtyard’s control of power.
• Teacher Ji criticized Jiang Man’s slow progress and had him and Ji Meng stay behind, while their companions speculated that the two were dao companions.
• Tantai Xue wondered why Jiang Man wanted the Supreme Heart Hall, then decided to search for it for him.

Jiang Man refined his power under Ji Hao’s guidance and prepared for the Small Courtyard assessment, while Ji Linglong warned him that Bai Ming had returned at Primordial Spirit Perfection to suppress him. Jiang Man refused to avoid the challenge, and Zhao Yaoyao declared that he had become the only voice left in the realm.

• Tantai Xue and Tantai Xiaotian discussed ways to locate the Supreme Heart Hall and sell its approximate location.
• Ji Hao examined Jiang Man’s power, then spent January refining his circulation method before giving him a final version in February.
• Jiang Man promised Ji Meng he would win back her Spirit Sources by taking first place in the upcoming assessment.
• Bai Ming returned at Primordial Spirit Perfection and planned to use the assessment to suppress Jiang Man and the Ji Family members.
• Ji Linglong urged Jiang Man to feign illness and avoid Bai Ming, but Jiang Man rejected the idea and said the others had misunderstood the importance of time.
• At the assessment, Zhao Yaoyao told Ji Linglong that Jiang Man’s participation meant his was the only voice left in the realm.

Jiang Man fought Bai Ming in the final match and revealed overwhelming power, defeating him without taking a direct hit. He claimed first place and received the Spirit Sword.

• Teacher Yan explained the assessment scoring, and Jiang Man completed the three written tests, estimating that he had scored eighty-five points.
• Ji Linglong lost to Bai Ming after unleashing two Great Spell Arts, while Xiao Qing and Qi Xi injured each other too badly to continue.
• Jiang Man defeated Ji Meng in their match, leaving him to face Bai Ming for first place.
• Bai Ming attacked Jiang Man with a giant manifestation, but Jiang Man's power barrier deflected every strike as he steadily approached.
• Jiang Man shattered the giant with the weight of his Primordial Spirit Perfection power and sent Bai Ming crashing into the arena, where Bai Ming passed out.
• Teacher Yan gave Jiang Man the Spirit Sword after he asked whether he had taken first place.

After taking first place in the Primordial Spirit assessment, Jiang Man studied the Formation Arts Evil God's formations for months to prepare a surprise for Ji Meng. As he prepared for the next assessment and his plans to confront the Bai Family Ancestor, Tantai Xue decided to give him information about the Supreme Heart Hall and find out why he wanted it.

• Jiang Man won the Primordial Spirit assessment with an overwhelming palm strike, then returned Ji Meng's Spirit Sword and asked her for help studying the Formation Arts Evil God's formations.
• The cultivation rankings showed Jiang Man in first place with eighty-six points, one point ahead of Bai Ming, though Jiang Man had meant to score eighty-five.
• Jiang Man mastered his Power Control Method and spent three months studying obscure formation texts and another month learning formations and their flaws from Ji Meng.
• Qing Dai and Yu Wanyi set a fire in an attempt to arrange Yu Wanyi's release, and both were arrested.
• Jiang Man told Ji Meng he was preparing a surprise for her, then returned to prepare for the Small Courtyard assessment and Ting Fengyin's arrival.
• Tantai Xue selected three envelopes of information about possible Supreme Heart Hall locations and planned to pass them to Jiang Man, suspecting he wanted to report the Hall.

Jiang Man received information from Immortal Maiden Liuchu about three possible locations of the Supreme Heart Hall and submitted it to the Mountain-Suppressing Office, hoping to earn a mission and Spirit Sources. Meanwhile, a vote moved the Primordial Spirit Assessment forward, and the other contestants learned Jiang Man had scheduled it months earlier; the Assessment was set to begin the next day.

• Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit warned Jiang Man that news of the Immortal Dao Coordinates would soon spread, and Jiang Man met Tantai Xue in the Ruins, where she introduced herself as Liuchu and gave him three envelopes of information.
• Jiang Man learned that three concealed locations showed strange effects linked to the Supreme Heart Hall, then sent the information to the Mountain-Suppressing Office and offered to take a mission to investigate.
• Ji Linglong told Ji Chenfeng and Ji Shoumo that Jiang Man had scored eighty-six points in the Small Courtyard assessment and demonstrated formidable strength in the practical test.
• Teacher Yan announced that the vote to begin the Primordial Spirit Assessment had passed, then revealed Jiang Man had booked the vote months earlier and that the Assessment would start the next day.
• Miao Yulin heard from Qi Xi that Golden Core cultivators had spoken confidently about Jiang Man, and she worried the others would need to fight with everything they had.

Jiang Man’s Primordial Spirit assessment turned into a battle when he challenged nearly everyone at once and overwhelmed them with his Great Sun Shining Heaven. After leveling the plaza, he was brought before the Enforcement Hall and learned the repairs would cost eight hundred thousand.

• Jiang Man found his residence filled with black smoke from several failed schemes, then took Ji Meng out for a stroll while Ji Shoumo and the others withdrew their tricks.
• Teacher Yan confirmed Jiang Man had completed three missions and was eligible for the assessment; Jiang Man gave his all on the written tests.
• At the combat assessment, Jiang Man invited everyone except Ji Meng and Xiao Qing to attack him together, then fought off nine opponents.
• Jiang Man unleashed nine fused suns in a Great Sun Shining Heaven, defeating everyone and leveling the plaza.
• Ren Qian told Jiang Man that repairing the plaza and surrounding grounds would cost eight hundred thousand.

Jiang Man learned he owed eight hundred thousand Spirit Sources for the damage caused during his assessment and met with Ji Meng afterward. Meanwhile, a black-robed man tried to recruit Fang Yong, and Jiang Man met Ting Fengyin at the Magpie Bridge to discuss his next plans.

• Ren Qian explained that Jiang Man was primarily responsible for the assessment damage and set his compensation at eight hundred thousand Spirit Sources, with the Sect and Teacher Yan paying the rest.
• Ji Meng told Jiang Man she had covered Teacher Yan’s medical expenses and would not ask him to repay that amount.
• At the Small Courtyard, Qing Dai questioned Fang Yong about Jiang Man’s early cultivation, and Fang Yong revealed that Jiang Man’s mind had recovered before he began cultivating.
• A black-robed man approached Fang Yong, dismissed his blame for the failed poison plot, and invited him to join their group in exchange for a token of allegiance.
• After the Magpie Bridge opened, Jiang Man went to meet Ting Fengyin, intending to ask about killing the Bai Family Ancestor and establishing an immortal ascension Daoist site.

Jiang Man visited Ting Fengyin to gather heavenly secret tree leaves, learn the location of the Supreme Heart Hall, and prepare for a possible fight with the Bai Family Ancestor and Meng Qiewei. After three days of combat practice, he returned home, while Teacher Yan was persuaded to stay in her position at the Enforcement Hall.

• Jiang Man picked one hundred leaves from Ting Fengyin's heavenly secret tree and learned that the Supreme Heart Hall was out at sea, where Ting Fengyin had knocked it in passing.
• Ting Fengyin warned Jiang Man that the Bai Family Ancestor would cripple him in three moves, and advised him to kill the Ancestor and Meng Qiewei together after they began fighting.
• Ting Fengyin refused to help Jiang Man summon the Water God, sealed the Immeasurable Kalpa Stone, and told him to learn how to overpower the Bai Family Ancestor's tricks with sheer strength.
• Jiang Man sparred with Ting Fengyin for three days, practicing against methods modeled on the Bai Family Ancestor's attacks, then left the Magpie Bridge.
• At the Enforcement Hall, Ren Qian and an Immortal Maiden covered Teacher Yan's treatment and compensation and persuaded her not to transfer out.
• Ren Qian asked about the Upper Court Assessment and investigations into three locations, while he and the Immortal Maiden wondered whether those matters would affect Jiang Man's plans for the Supreme Heart Hall.

Jiang Man arranged to pursue the Supreme Heart Hall mission while securing a way to obtain a Return to the Void slot after next year’s assessment. As rumors spread about Fang Yong betraying Jiang Man’s associates, Jiang Man wondered whether Fang Yong was about to make a fortune.

• Jiang Man chose the sea region for the Supreme Heart Hall mission and learned it would conflict with the August Upper Courtyard Assessment.
• Jiang Man asked Teacher Yan and Yu Wanyi about taking the assessment as a mission, and Yu Wanyi agreed to submit an application for him.
• Upper Court students successively accepted Jiang Man’s challenge and signed their consent, eventually securing his Return to the Void slot if he completed the mission.
• Rumors that Fang Yong sold information about Jiang Man and reported Song Qing spread through the Small Courtyard, changing how people viewed him.
• After hearing the rumors, Jiang Man asked Old Yellow Ox whether Young Master Fang was about to strike it rich.

Jiang Man set out with Chen Jinmu and Zhao Li on a dangerous mission to explore the inner waters, where they met Shen Yao and an Immortal Gate patrol. Meanwhile, Mr. Bai told Song Qing that he would soon have to leave, though he still needed to send some people back.

• Jiang Man wrote Song Qing a letter through Chang Qiwen, then visited Ji Meng before preparing for his mission and promising her a surprise when he returned.
• Jiang Man spent his remaining Spirit Sources on formation materials, collected the mission with Chen Jinmu and Zhao Li, and traveled to the Overseas Archipelago using Silver Tokens.
• Chen Shi escorted Jiang Man and the others to meet an Immortal Gate patrol, where Shen Yao recognized Jiang Man's Hundred Rivers Great Accomplishment and the Immortal questioned his Mountain-Suppressing Office connection.
• The Immortal led Jiang Man, Chen Jinmu, Zhao Li, and Shen Yao out over the sea toward the inner waters, while Shen Yao challenged Jiang Man and he remained silent.
• Mr. Bai told Song Qing that he would soon leave and still needed to send some people back, lamenting that he had little time left to spend with Song Qing's boss.

Mr. Bai warned Song Qing that danger would follow him, then prepared to meet Ji Meng and kill her. Meanwhile, Jiang Man and his companions entered the mist, reached Primordial Mountain, and met the Heavenly Heart Tribe; Ji Meng decided to go to Mr. Bai’s meeting despite his threat against Jiang Man.

• Mr. Bai warned Song Qing that he would be reported again and urged him to caution his friends against acting out of character, then left Spirit Sources and the white fox at the Shaobing Shop.
• Jiang Man, Shen Yao, Zhao Li, and Chen Jinmu crossed the Endless Sea and entered the mist, using Shen Yao’s Law Treasure to find their way while the middle-aged Immortal prepared to draw away the threat.
• The group reached Primordial Mountain, where the Heavenly Heart Tribe mistook them for representatives of the Immortal Court and invited them inside after Jiang Man showed his Token.
• Mr. Bai laid measures around a lake, sent a letter toward Ji Meng, and divined that Jiang Man had entered the Mist before waiting for Ji Meng’s meeting and death.
• Ji Meng read Mr. Bai’s threat to seek out Jiang Man if she skipped their meeting, and she decided to go because he had dared to make the threat.

Qing Dai and Ji Meng suspected the Bai Family Ancestor’s challenge concealed a deadly trap, while Jiang Man’s group entered the island’s forbidden-ground territory under false pretenses. The island’s leaders planned to use the newcomers to escape and began preparing a curse to keep them trapped.

• Ji Meng stopped Qing Dai from approaching the Bai Family Ancestor’s location, and they considered whether an unknown enemy was targeting people on the list.
• Jiang Man showed the island’s elder the Token and arranged approval to enter the forbidden ground, then recognized that the islanders knew he was lying about being from the Immortal Court.
• Jiang Man explained that the islanders wanted to use the newcomers to achieve their own goals and sensed that the Bai Family Ancestor’s plan was beginning.
• Elder Chu met with the island’s leaders and decided to let Jiang Man’s group enter the forbidden ground before capturing them for study and escape plans.
• A rune-marked young woman volunteered to accompany the group and plant a mind-influencing curse through a transaction.

Jiang Man accepted Elder Chu’s offer of five hundred thousand Spirit Stones to search the Forbidden Mountain Range for Qiao Yu, then entered a hidden path where he discovered a formation containing the aftershocks of Ting Fengyin’s power. As Jiang Man studied the formation, Ji Meng and Qing Dai prepared to face the Bai Family Ancestor, with Ji Meng determined to carve out a path to survival.

• Jiang Man negotiated Elder Chu’s reward up to five hundred thousand Spirit Stones, accepted the mission, and agreed to search for the missing Qiao Yu with her sister Qiaoyue.
• Jiang Man and the others entered the Forbidden Mountain Range, where Qiaoyue revealed a hidden path and warned that the woods’ mist could separate them.
• The mist separated Jiang Man from Shen Yao, Zhao Li, and Chen Jinmu, and he found himself in a clearing with a formation built around four Stone Pillars.
• Jiang Man recognized Ting Fengyin’s power within the Stone Pillars and began studying the formation, hoping to find a way out and return to the Sect.
• Three days later, Ji Meng and Qing Dai prepared to confront the Bai Family Ancestor, and Ji Meng resolved to fight for a path to survival.

Jiang Man left the woods and returned to the Wuyun Sect to kill the Bai Family Ancestor while Ji Meng and Qing Dai fought him. He arrived as the two women were cornered, shattered Mr. Bai’s formations with sheer power, and began a desperate battle before the Sect could intervene.

• Jiang Man used Heavenly Secret Tree leaves to establish concealed Coordinates in the woods, then returned to the Wuyun Sect and prepared to attack the Bai Family Ancestor.
• Old Yellow Ox warned Jiang Man that the Wuyou Evil God was divining his whereabouts and that he had little time before his absence was discovered.
• Ji Meng and Qing Dai fought Mr. Bai, but he broke Ji Meng’s Great Dream of a Thousand Years and trapped them in a formation while they grew increasingly injured.
• Just as Mr. Bai prepared to attack Ji Meng and Qing Dai again, Drunken Floating Life appeared and used Three Mountains Suppressing Peaks to interrupt him.
• Drunken Floating Life shattered the formations around himself and struck Mr. Bai, who retaliated with explosive power as their battle began.

Jiang Man used the Evil God Method to fight Mr. Bai, whose defenses and formations made him difficult to kill. Mr. Bai began to self-detonate, and the forces collided; when the Mountain-Suppressing Office arrived, everyone had vanished, while True Person Taihua sensed that something had happened.

• Jiang Man’s momentum strengthened until his punch broke through Mr. Bai’s defenses and exposed his bones.
• Mr. Bai questioned Jiang Man’s identity, but Jiang Man kept attacking, ripped off his remaining arm, and smashed his chest.
• Mr. Bai activated his formations and started detonating himself as Jiang Man unleashed his Evil God Power.
• Ji Meng and Qing Dai realized the clash would spread beyond the formation, but they could not escape in time.
• The forces collided, triggering the sect’s grand formation; Xiang Tianlin, Red Eagle, Ren Qian, and the other officials sealed off the area.
• After the residual force faded, the officials found only a giant pit, while True Person Taihua sensed that something had happened.